Jakera — girls' name
286 babies named Jakera in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 1999. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Jakera was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Jakera in 1999 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jakera
The Social Security Administration has registered 286 babies named Jakera between 1989 and 2017, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jakera currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jakera performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 137 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jakera shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jakera in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jakera in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 286 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jakera at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jakera popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1989
- Peak year (1999)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
286 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1999 with 18 births in a single year.
Jakera by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 137 births that decade — 48% of Jakera's all-time total
Jakera decade highlights
- Peak decade 137 births
- Runner-up 108 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jakera's strongest decade
137 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Jakera by state
Where Jakera concentrates geographically — total births since 1989
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | North Carolina | | 5 | 1.7% |
5 of 286 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- North Carolina 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
North Carolina accounts for 1.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.